Jean-Pierre Raffarin Quotes
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.
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We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
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A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.
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When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.
